Posted on January 22, 2024
Quincy Group Theatre celebrated its 2023 time final Friday evening at the Atrium on 3rd. The evening began with a formal meal, adopted by the awards and recognition ceremony. 20 volunteers were being acknowledged for their contributions to the theatre.
The spotlight of the evening was the presentation of the QCTs greatest honor, the Enid Ireland Award. Enid Ireland was active in the relaunch of Quincy Community Theatre just after Planet War II, and she was the 1st receiver of this award, in her title, in 1974. The Enid Ireland Award is introduced by the theatre to an unique who has demonstrated superb dedication and assistance to the generation, organization or continuation of Quincy Local community Theatre. This award was offered to Jay Trimble, who has served as the audio designer and sound board operator for 1-3 productions every single year due to the fact he commenced his involvement at QCT in 1995. If Jay wasnt behind the board himself for a production, he served as a guide for other sound designers, and he has been instrumental in the upkeep of sound gear and seem updates.
The Rosie is QCTs greatest honor in the university student theatre plan, named for lengthy-time QCT volunteer Rose Lacquement. Lily Twaddle was awarded The Rosie for her perseverance to QCT and its schooling plan. Lily designed her very first onstage look in TARZAN in 2017 and was most a short while ago noticed in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S Desire in 2023. She has been a student in many theatre courses and is a past recipient of the Burning Flame Award for her optimistic angle and exceptional hard work.
The Ghost Light Award was presented to 5 individuals. All recipients were being nominated by cast and crew customers for the clearly show in which they were being concerned, and a committee chosen the winners from the nominations. The Ghost Light-weight Award is presented to a person who demonstrates exertion that goes earlier mentioned and further than forged or crew anticipations, willingness to assistance other folks for the achievement of the total clearly show, and ingenuity in problem resolving. The recipients had been:
Maurice Silas for Rent
Ava Jacobsen for THE Audio Person
Kristie Bradshaw for CLUE
Jason Keller for PETER PAN
Evan Conover for PETER PAN
The Burning Flame Award was offered to four pupils for excellent energy in a student production. This decades recipients had been:
Keyarri Holder for DISNEY’S MOANA, JR.
Helen Smith for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S Aspiration
Briana Zanger for LIONS IN ILLYRIA
Ava Kaelke for THE HOBBIT
The Executive Directors Award was given to Gretchen Wolfmeyer for her lots of decades of volunteerism on phase and backstage at QCT and for her contributions to the QCT neighborhood in 2023. The Artistic Administrators Award was given to Steve Looten, Jr., who, since 2010, has choreographed a lot of of the battles and battle sequences viewed on the QCT phase. In the 2023 period, Looten served as the fight director for THE HOBBIT and PETER PAN.
The Paul Denckla Technical Directors award to Dan Stephens for his outstanding contribution to backstage function throughout 2023, like as the weapons artisan for THE HOBBIT and PETER PAN. The Front of House award was introduced to Michele Clarke. Clarke has volunteered in the box business for 29 of the 46 performances in 2023 and assisted with countless other alternatives.
Julie Schuetz, Quinton Metcalf, Ruth Kummerow, David Samuels, and Marissa Rabe have been also acknowledged for contributing over 200 volunteer several hours to the firm in 2023.
The evening also showcased quite a few musical numbers, together with a rendition of Seasons of Appreciate from the cast of Rent, Residence carried out by Jordan Archibald (initially performed at QCTs 100th Anniversary Gala), and The Odor of Rise up done by Kristen Houston from the impending MATILDA: THE MUSICAL.